Mummy Magic at the Getty Villa
Visitors explore the mummy of Herakleides and make their own model mummies.
Read MoreVisitors explore the mummy of Herakleides and make their own model mummies.
Read MoreA former intern reflects on his career beginnings at the Getty.
Read MoreDo we love Gustav Klimt a little too much?
Read MoreCurator of Chinese art at the Seattle Art Museum reflects on his career beginnings at the Getty.
Read MoreGustav Klimt did not speak about his art, but he left many drawings that attest to the richness of his creative process. Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line, opening today at the Getty Center, coaxes these drawings to speak,...
Read MoreThis summer, I am working at the Getty Foundation as part of the Multicultural Undergraduate Internship program. The program provides paid internships to diverse students at arts organizations all across L.A., including the Getty. The highlight of my first week was...
Read MoreIntimate relationships visualized: the work and love of Sylvia Sleigh and Lawrence Alloway.
Read MoreUPDATE: The screening of the 1911 film L’Inferno, scheduled for Saturday, June 23, at 3:00 p.m., has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience. The other two films will screen as planned. The Museum’s Department of Manuscripts recently opened...
Read MoreHaving spent a good deal of time with Aphrodite of late, I found in Herb Ritts: L.A. Style a real feast—not just for the eyes, but for the mind. The two exhibitions overlap in their focus on the seductive...
Read MoreMore videos: • Has Los Angeles’s ecology of evil improved? • Are Huffington Post bloggers “volunteer slaves”? • What do you think about the dismantling of the Barnes Foundation? On Monday we put out a call on Facebook and...
Read MoreOne of the most enjoyable aspects of curating an exhibition is serendipity. Not to say these projects aren’t carefully planned (far from it), but sometimes the physical relationship of two artworks will coincide in an unexpectedly fortuitous way, or...
Read MoreI’ve always appreciated art, but creating art never seemed like something I could do. Creating a drawing or painting was what talented people did, not me. Professionally, I first became involved in art 10 years ago when I left...
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